Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error reporting...

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Donald J Christensen <dj...@ci...> writes:

> Just a thought from a non-network expert, but what about using syslog?
> It seems like it would be an easy packet to put together and send, and
> a syslog daemon would be easier to set up than SNMP.  I don't know if
> you can broadcast a syslog packet or not, so you might have to have an
> address.  This could be handled as a DHCP option if Etherboot has
> gotten that far, or maybe a compile-time option for when DHCP is not
> successful.

That actually sounds a little better.  If syslog has the property
where you can send a single udp packet that is a valid option as well.
Especially if I can broadcast a syslog packet...

Eric